It's a shocking display from so called fans. I hope the Widnes club does ban every single one of these idiots for life and passes on their details to the RL community at large so they can be banned from the sport entirely.

The Bulls are not blameless in bringing bad publicity to the sport over the last few years, but there's a world of difference between a club having financial trouble and drunken louts trying to start fights on national tv

Not sure if I have ever seen anything about bad behavior from the bulls. Seen a couple of teenage lads arguing between us and Leeds a couple of seasons ago but no violent action taken. I don't think it was anything to do with Leeds and Bradford i just think it was teenage lads been teenage lads. I know plenty of lads that use to go to the Leeds away game just for a up.

The Widnes chief exec has made a strong statement very quickly. www.widnesvikings.co.uk/article/ ... james-rule He'll be taking it incredibly seriously and it will get sorted. Hull were surely on the verge of getting competition bans at one point but they got their house in order and so will Widnes. The game often lurches into a woe is me, end of the world lament a bit too easily (and I should know, I'm a right miserable git these days).

The Widnes chief exec has made a strong statement very quickly. www.widnesvikings.co.uk/article/ ... james-rule He'll be taking it incredibly seriously and it will get sorted. Hull were surely on the verge of getting competition bans at one point but they got their house in order and so will Widnes. The game often lurches into a woe is me, end of the world lament a bit too easily (and I should know, I'm a right miserable git these days).

this will be a finacial penalty only ,i feel for the genuine widnes fans that have to be tarnished with the same brush as the people that have let there emotions and beer get the better of them, im sure there will be one or two people in widnes expecting a knock on the door in the next couple of days but all they will get is a slap on the wrist and a fine ,so you carnt expect the RFL to do anything else exept a fine and a slap on the wrist .

It was pretty obvious from the TV shots that there were a fair number of people in the Widnes end who were worse for wear with booze.

I won't call them 'Widnes fans' because they were quite possibly just local chavs who were attracted by the idea of a day out. And they obviously couldn't hold their ale

Lets' not detract from a terrific performance by Castleford

I think the club will come down hard, to be honest.

I guess it's pretty much accepted that it's society's problem and not [ireally[/i the clubs responsibility, but 'Local chavs', or 'not really Widnes fans' or not, rightly or wrongly they were in the Chemics section, presumably bought tickets from the Widnes ticket office and many were wearing club colours, so it reflects on the club and they have to be seen to be 'doing something'. I'm sure they will.

We'll get over it. We've another moment to come yet as well.

Yep and you was propbably one of them

and you wouldnt of seen anything 1) because not happened and 2) your never there, stick to valley parade

And the last point it would help if you read what he actually put as wasnt saying we were violent he mentioned bad publicity to to financial woes

so he should have done. Theres no such thing as no comment in the pr world. Send him for more media training forthwith.

What it proved, if anything, is the utter idiocy of spending tens of thousands of pounds on dayglo "security" marshals surrounding the pitch looking like a set of garv=den gnomes, they never do anything, and apart from running about a bit into groups, leaving huge gaps wide open for morons to run through, they did little, and achieved nothing. I am not knocking them, btw, the point I am making is that having a cordon of dayglos around the pitch is an utter pointless waste of money, as they aren't allowed into the creowd in the highly unlikely event anything did kick off, and are as much use in stopping drunks invading the pitch as a twelve inch plastic picket fence..

Tear gas would have sorted this very quickly

Tear gas? You're going soft.

Perhaps, but shooting live rounds indiscriminately into the crowd just generates too much paperwork

Typical. I turned over to watch the cycling once Cas had it in the bag. Missed all the excitement.

I didn't see any of it on TV just a couple of k no bs that ran on the pitch when widnes scored.

From the vids I've seen after it wasn't exactly the huysel stadium disaster. I think hull in 2000 were a lot worse. A bit of rough housing that was about it really.

It was more loutishness than hooliganism.

A fine for widnes or a ban from the cc like queens were given and bans once the cops round the idiots up. But it's not the crisis for rl some people will have us believe. It's very very rare this sort of thing.